{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The year is 1557 and Francis Crawford of Lymond must serve the King of France for a year before he can return to Russia, where he believes his destiny lies. Yet the astrologer John Dee has said: It is not one thing you seek, but two; and the place for neither is Russia. Lymond, exercising his formidable military talents against the English, has no desire to discover the meaning of this prophecy. But Philippa, his wife-in-name only, has. And she devotes her days to a hazardous search for the truth about the past, and the future, of her enigmatic husband."}, "covers": [100492], "key": "/works/OL568590W", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL41442A"}}], "title": "Checkmate (Lymond Chronicles)", "subjects": ["Fiction", "Historical Fiction", "Fiction, action & adventure", "Fiction, historical", "Crawford, francis (fictitious character), fiction", "France, fiction", "Francis Crawford (Fictitious character)", "History", "Nobility", "Romans, nouvelles", "Histoire"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T05:25:50.723783"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-08-02T05:59:46.214536"}}